Fruit precooling · California

Frontier Cooling

Santa Maria, CA · ~42 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Frontier Cooling runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fruit precooling workplace, earning a grade A.

Frontier Cooling: 0.8 TCR = 17% of Fruit precooling BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Frontier Cooling safety composite

Frontier Cooling scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Frontier Cooling: 0.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 3.01× in 2024

Frontier Cooling's TCR rose 2.4 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Santa Maria, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 17% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #6/236
  • PHOTO Clarion, IA
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clarion, IA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Frontier Cooling in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Frontier Cooling averages 0.8 TCR (17% of the Fruit precooling BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Frontier Cooling TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Frontier Cooling falls in its industry

666 Fruit precooling establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 236 Fruit precooling employers in California.

Frontier Cooling (42 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Frontier Cooling
Frontier Cooling (42 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Frontier Cooling has fewer employees than the Fruit precooling median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Santa Maria

666 Fruit precooling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Clarion, IA 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kunia, HI - Upper Kunia 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer Hi-bred International Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waterloo 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Quad H 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE CJJ Farming, Inc 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oceano Packing Company LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Connell Ranch 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR Duke Lazzara Development 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Richardson Trident Company -Richardson 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Headquarters 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AMICO - Seasafe 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Star America, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Field - New York Restoration Project 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Logistics Inc. , Taylor 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE MI Metals - Prescott Valley 42 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.